Barack Obama seems more intent on totally destroying Republicans and the United States than in dealing with the nation's current problems. It is heard to fathom why he is so focused on the water-boarding of three terrorists back in 2002 or 2003. Here is a question that occurred to me: if water-boarding is illegal, why do we subject our own people to it during their training? If it is illegal, then one would think that we wouldn't use it in training, and if it is illegal, then why would we need to teach people to resist it? People are saying some really silly things about the use of harsh interrogation techniques. Many people appear to have some confusion about the purpose of interrogation of terrorists. In the case of terrorists the intent is not to get a confession, but rather to gain information. I see some people on TV who are supposed to be expert interrogators who say that they could have gotten the information from KSM and others without water-boarding. Maybe so, maybe they are super good interrogators. But the people who were actually doing the interrogation were not having success before they started water-boarding. The answer to this is that we will never know if the self-confessed master interrogators would have succeeded or not. We do know what did happen, and the results were good. The other objection that I hear to water-boarding is that you may get false information. That is certainly true. But, you can check on the validity of the info. For example KSM gave the name of the person who was going to attempt to bring down the Bridge in New York. Sure enough, when his apartment was raided the FBI found drawings of the bridge, and equipment needed for the attack. So, that information was true. Recently the highly partisan Democrat news anchor posing as an objective journalist, Norah O'Donnell had an ambush interview on the subject of harsh interrogation with former VP Cheney's daughter Liz. After this interview I doubt Norah wants more debate with Liz Cheney. ( I was not aware of this daughter of Dick and Lyn Cheney: the press liked to talk about their gay daughter Mary, but I never saw anything about this daughter. I suppose that is not surprising since Liz is very impressive.)